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1                                ltrace
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3                       A Dynamic Library Tracer
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5         Copyright 1997-2006 Juan Cespedes <cespedes@debian.org>
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8Contents
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10 0. Authors
11 1. Introduction
12 2. Where can I find it
13 3. How does it work
14 4. Where does it work
15 5. Bugs
16 6. License
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190. Authors
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21ltrace has been developed mainly by Juan Cespedes <cespedes@debian.org>,
22but he has received many contributions from other people.  The following
23people have contributed significantly to this project:
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25* Pat Beirne <pbeirne@home.com> (ARM port)
26* Roman Hodek <Roman.Hodek@informatik.uni-erlangen.de> (m68k port)
27* Morten Eriksen <mortene@sim.no> (misc fixes)
28* Silvio Cesare <silvio@big.net.au> (ELF hacking)
29* Timothy Fesig <slate@us.ibm.com> (S390 port)
30* Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> (Powerpc port)
31* Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> (SPARC port, support for libelf, many fixes)
32* Jakub Bogusz <qboosh@pld-linux.org> (alpha port)
33* SuSE (amd64 port)
34* Ian Wienand <ianw@gelato.unsw.edu.au> (IA64 port)
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361. Introduction
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38ltrace is a debugging tool, similar to strace, but it traces library
39calls instead of system calls.
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412. Where can I find it
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44http://ltrace.alioth.debian.org
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463. How does it work
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48Using software breakpoints, just like gdb.
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504. Where does it work
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53It works with ELF based Linux systems running on i386, m68k, S/390,
54ARM, PowerPC, PowerPC64, IA64, AMD64, SPARC and Alpha processors.
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56It is part of at least Debian GNU/Linux, RedHat, SuSE and Mandrake.
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585. Bugs
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60Too many to list here :).  If you like to submit a bug report, or a
61feature request, either do that against the Debian `ltrace' package,
62or mail ltrace-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org.
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64This file is very incomplete and out-of-date.
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666. License
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68    Copyright (C) 1997-2006 Juan Cespedes <cespedes@debian.org>
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70    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
71    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
72    the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
73    (at your option) any later version.
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75    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
76    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
77    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
78    GNU General Public License for more details.
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80    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
81    along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
82    Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston,
83    MA 02111-1307, USA.
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